A week of resistance against hunger quotas
What began as a series of salary arrears has transformed into an open conflict that puts the operation of the company in check. Tres Arroyos Farm. The poultry giant, far from normalizing the situation, has launched a proposal that workers describe as an insult: pay the bonuses and fortnights owed in installments that would extend until the month of May.
In a video broadcast on social networks, the workers maintain: “The company continues to manifest a crisis. They are going to pay the bonus in 4 times and the fortnight in 5 installments and this situation would continue until the month of May.”
Roberto, one of the workers, recounted the workers’ anger at receiving insignificant partial payments: “Yesterday we received a part of the bonus, but nothing, $100 thousand of almost a penny and a half that they owe us.” The situation has forced employees to turn to informality to cover basic needs: “I’m going out to work on the motorcycle, because I can’t afford it. I’m paying the bills with what I do outside, if having a blank job I can’t pay for things. It’s a terrible situation.”
The workers have been denouncing that in addition to the salary arrears, the company has delays in the payment of mutual benefits, it would not be paying the retirement contributions and applied an 11% reduction in salaries, to which new delays in payments are now being added.
The logic of the “Stay Pattern”
It is unacceptable that one of the largest chicken exporters in the country, which invoices in dollars and dominates the domestic market, alleges a crisis to avoid paying salaries, while its trucks continue leaving (when workers do not stop them) towards ports and supermarkets.
The proposal to pay in installments until May is another example that businessmen want to take advantage of the situation to continue increasing their profits.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
